bichromatic: Visit San Antonio Texas: Boudro's On the River Walk, The River’s Edge Café, Rita’s on the River & Blue Box Bar

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Visit San Antonio Texas: Boudro's On the River Walk, The River’s Edge Café, Rita’s on the River & Blue Box Bar

By midday we got on the road and by the time we reached San Antonio, surprisingly I was not hungry so we did some sightseeing and shopping at the Market Square and checked into the hotel (Hilton Palacio Del Rio).

Eventually, we ending up at the Riverwalk for the evening.

There was a long wait (over an hour without reservations) but finally by 9pm, we were able to sit down at Boudro's for dinner and even more Mexican food.

Preparing the Guacamole

Guacamole for Two (DELISH)

Hurricane (SATISFYING)

Center Cut Strip Sirloin (DELISH)

Texas Filet of Sirloin and Frites (SATISFYING)

Stuffed from dinner, we headed back to the hotel for the night.

The next morning all I wanted to do was eat (and it didn’t matter where), so we ended up having breakfast at the hotel restaurant, The River’s Edge Café. Hotel food can be overpriced and mediocre but the food here really wasn't that bad.

Bagel with Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon (SATISYING)

After breakfast we walked to the Alamo and La Vilita to check it out.

After that we decided to pay the river taxi for the day and just take it up and down the river.

The river taxi is awesome and reasonably priced but it was hot as hell and after a few hours, we were hungry and decided to have an early dinner at Rita’s on the River. It was not very good, touristy as hell, but the Margarita’s helped me not think about it.

Pork Tacos (SATISYING)

Margarita (SATISYING)

After dinner we took the taxi down to Pearl Brewery to have drinks at Blue Box Bar. This was by far the best bar I have been to and the best drinks I have had (or I was drunk enough to at least think so). The bartender was awesome (from Brooklyn) and introduced me to an Army Navy, my new favorite drink. He craft some equally fabulous drinks as well and all were reasonable priced.